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by jjaksic 8mo ago
Have you tried Bazzite or Aurora? A well-made and full-featured atomic distro is basically as easy to use and as reliable as ChromeOS, but with most of the flexibility that Linux offers. I had Ubuntu for 8 years and it was as you describe (
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by jjaksic 8mo ago
Do readability and maintainability not matter when AI "reads" and maintains the code? I'm pretty sure they do.
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by jjaksic 9mo ago
When Nadella took over from Ballmer, he steered Microsoft in a better direction for a while. But by now he's become a lot worse. The biggest software company can no longer produce good software and its products are actively hostile to
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by jjaksic 9mo ago
"I'm going to go with Fedora on my tower and Bazzite (or SteamOS) on my handhelds." Why not Bazzite on both? Bazzite is a fantastic desktop OS! Easier to use than naked Fedora and virtually unbreakable.
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by jjaksic 9mo ago
Seriously, one random website getting less traffic means "Google is dead"? I imagine if you hit your toe, you call it "end of the world"? This sort of posts should be illegal. Flagged.
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by jjaksic 9mo ago
FWIW, I once complained about this and they told me it's a "hard problem".
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by jjaksic 9mo ago
Linux has made an insane amount of progress in recent years. Atomic distros like Bazzite and Aurora are so polished, modern, easy to use, and virtually unbreakable. Even most Windows games work perfectly out of the box (often better than on
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by jjaksic 10mo ago
Bazzite is an insanely awesome distro! I used Ubuntu for 8 years constantly fixing issues, from the day I installed it (because it didn't support basic Ryzen), after every distro upgrade, and various other random points, e.g. when inst
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by jjaksic 10mo ago
"I'm leaving you for a new context window."
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by jjaksic 10mo ago
Yes, exactly. AI has its uses and can sometimes be extremely useful. But at this point it's not nearly as ubiquitously useful as various companies would want us to believe, based on how much they're forcing it on us, pushing it in
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by jjaksic 10mo ago
"Hop on a call" is also tone-deaf.
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by jjaksic 11mo ago
You know you can sell and replace your phone if you don't like it. Recent Pixels have 7 years of support and they don't die. That's what I'd recommend you get instead. You can even trade in your iPhone for up to $700 whe
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by jjaksic 11mo ago
Because human work is designed for humans. If you want a drop-in replacement for human workers, humanoid robots are your best bet.
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by jjaksic 1y ago
Wow, I don't understand what anything means in those memes. And I'm so glad I don't! It seems to me that the people/committees who built C++ just spent decades inventing new and creative ways for developers to shoot th
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by jjaksic 1y ago
Being able to cut 90% of code sounds like someone was getting paid by LoC (which is also a practice from a time when C++ was considered a "modern" language).
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by jjaksic 1y ago
Dude, that is so weird!
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by jjaksic 1y ago
Linus is not your boss in the sense that he pays you and can tell you what you do day o day, but he is your "boss" in the sense that he's the one who ultimately approves your work (which includes both your code and your condu
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by jjaksic 1y ago
I was there. They had no idea. The purpose and expectation of the transformer architecture was to enable better translation at scale and without recurrence. This in itself would have been a big deal (and they probably expected some citation
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by jjaksic 1y ago
Illusion doesn't imply it's unnecessary. Humans (and animals) had a much higher probability of survival as individuals and as species if their experiences felt more "real and personal".
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by jjaksic 1y ago
Introspection is just a debugger (and not a very good one).
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by jjaksic 1y ago
As a physics layman I sometimes watched Sabine's show and found it interesting. The one where she defended Weinstein was the one where she lost all credibility to me and I stopped watching her. Her (expletive-laden) message was essenti
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by jjaksic 1y ago
You should tell them.
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by jjaksic 1y ago
Firefox has been my browser since its first beta 20-something years ago, and I don't see anything replacing it. It has by far the best addons and tab management. Chrome, after all these years, doesn't even offer vertical tabs, and
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by jjaksic 1y ago
That seems fair and accurate. I guess disagreement about this question often stems from what we mean by "human", even more than what we mean by "intelligence". There are at least 3 distinct categories of human intellige
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by jjaksic 1y ago
There's a lot of moving the goal posts here. What would it mean for an AI to be considered "intelligent"? At various points it meant different things (chess, jeopardy, go, human language, math, etc). The most well-established
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by jjaksic 1y ago
And what truly novel things are humans capable of? At least 99% of the stuff we do is just what we were taught by parents, schools, books, friends, influencers, etc. Remember, humans needed some 100, 000 years to figure out that you can hit
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by jjaksic 1y ago
But "shortening other summaries from its training set" is not all an LLM is capable off. It can easily shorten/summarize a text it had never seen before, in a way that makes sense. Sure, it won't always summarize it the
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by jjaksic 1y ago
If you lock a human in a prison cell without a clock, so they can't tell the time and can't "go to a store", do they stop being intelligent?
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by jjaksic 1y ago
My wife and I have 2 teslas, a HW3 and a HW4. Even late last year FSD 12.5 was nowhere near close to being able to drive safely. Any non-straightforward situation (like merging during rush hour) would throw it off, so critical interventions
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by jjaksic 1y ago
This is somewhat tangential: people are debating a lot whether porn has negative effects, but has anyone thought about or studied positive effects? I personally think it's more likely for porn to have positive effects and that it'

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